Lake Tahoe

Jan 2006

Lake Tahoe

On New Year's Day we rented a car and took off for Lake Tahoe to go skiing and snowboarding. Lake Tahoe is amazing. The views are spectacular: when you're on the top, you see the immense lake on one side, while at the other side you see the beginning of the Nevada desert. The boarding was excellent. We were lucky though - apparently it hadn't snowed for ages till the day we arrived. We were welcomed with a big pack of fresh powder that lasted us through the whole vacation (indeed that was the only time it snowed at all!) The slopes were nice and wide, while off piste there were plenty of trees spaced wide enough you could board/ski through them without too much effort. Marieke had decided to change from snowboard back to skis, which was definitely the right decision - she went along with us through the trees and off any and all slopes and we really, really enjoyed it all.

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